{"id":2041335,"date":"2023-09-22T11:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-there-reason-to-be-hopeful-about-the-future\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:49:56","slug":"is-there-reason-to-be-hopeful-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-there-reason-to-be-hopeful-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there hope for the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-there-reason-to-be-hopeful-about-the-future%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2041335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Hopeful and Desperate\u200c Future<\/h2>\n<p><i>The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson\u2019s\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u3ySceWGcOc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for\u2063 Life tour<\/a>. In this part, he takes a\u2064 question \u200dfrom the \u2063audience about\u2063 whether he is hopeful about the future.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I would say I am <strong>hopeful and desperate<\/strong> about \u2062the future. I \u2063think that\u200c is actually the \u200cright attitude to have at \u2062the moment. For example, between 2000 and 2012, the number of people who were in absolute economic privation in the world plummeted faster than it ever had \u2064in history. Part\u2063 of that was a delayed consequence of the fall of the\u200d Soviet\u2063 Empire; fewer countries around the world were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-there-reason-to-be-hopeful-about-the-future\/\" title=\"Is there hope for the future?\">pursuing\u200d counterproductive economic visions<\/a>. As\u200b the population radically increased, everyone around the world got much richer. Now, there are still a large number\u200c of\u200b people who are absolutely poor, and there\u200c is an even\u2064 larger number of people who \u2064are relatively poor. But all things considered, we were\u200c cruising there for a good while. I see no reason \u2062why we could not eradicate absolute poverty pretty much everywhere. I see no reason other than voluntarily\u2064 willful \u2064blindness, stupidity, and\u2063 malevolence that would necessarily interfere with the\u2062 eradication of absolute poverty by 2035. We could \u2063do that. It is quite obvious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2063 is enough food for\u2064 everyone \u200b(though there are distribution problems). It is possible to provide \u2062educational resources to everyone. YouTube alone\u2062 can\u200d do \u200bthat to\u2062 a huge degree. You might be\u200c cynical about that, but TV made people smarter, not\u200d stupider. It might have made really smart people somewhat stupider, but it made \u200dchildren who would otherwise have been abandoned \u200dalone in\u200b their cribs watching absolutely \u2062nothing for hours \u2062at a\u2063 time much smarter than they would have been otherwise. This\u2063 provision of universal\u2062 information and electronic platforms allow us to disseminate \u200binformation\u2062 \u2014 almost\u200b all information \u2014 at almost no cost. So \u2063I think things \u2062could be radically better if we got \u2063our aim right. Part of that is a consequence of our elevated technological and computational power which is becoming cheaper \u2064and more powerful at an extraordinarily rapid rate. The vision of a future of plenty \u2063on the \u200bmaterial\u200b and\u2064 spiritual front beckons like it never has before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But\u2062 along with that increased\u200d power comes the requirement for increased responsibility and wisdom. We could easily break things apart and produce a hell that would make what happened\u2064 in the 20th century look like a trial run. I would say that is up to each of us\u2063 in the most fundamental way. I concluded 40 years ago that \u2064the trajectory we walk toward heaven or hell is fundamentally dependent on individual choice. I do not really understand how \u200bthe universe \u200ccan be constructed \u2064so \u2063that that is true, but I believe it <i>is<\/i> \u200btrue. Solzhenitsyn said, for example, one man who stops lying can bring down a tyranny, and he did that so he \u2064knew. He\u2062 was not the only person who\u200b did that. We each <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angela-merkel-reverses-germany-easter-lockdown-decision-apologizes\/\" title=\"Angela Merkel Reverses Germany Easter Lockdown Decision, Apologizes\">bear ultimate responsibility<\/a>, \u2062in some sense, for the direction of our mutual striving\u2064 forward. I think that is the core doctrine of the\u200d West \u2014 that each individual is sovereign\u200c and of divine and\u2062 ultimate worth. There is a commensurate responsibility with that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought when I realized that\u2062 \u2014 partly from reading Solzhenitsyn, \u2064Jung, Dostoevsky, Frankl, Nietzsche to some degree, many people were pointing in that direction \u2014 it was necessary for us to become aware of that \u2062and to take that\u200b responsibility on our own\u2063 shoulders. So I have been talking to people as individuals ever since being at McGill, at Harvard, at the University of Toronto, and then more broadly, publicly, inviting people to the adventure\u200d of their life \u2014 the \u2063moral adventure of their \u200dlife \u2014\u200d driven by\u200b my conviction that it actually matters whether\u2064 you get your act together. It matters eternally in some sense. It matters \u200din a heaven or hell manner. In a totalitarian state, people are locked\u200d into\u200d tyranny because every individual lies \u200d\u2014 every single one. That is the grip of the totalitarian state, and \u2064to \u200dthe degree that you are\u2063 living in deceit, you are contributing to tyranny and the hell that \u2063accompanies it \u2014 \u2064and \u2063not in some little way. Not only are\u2064 you not saying what you should say when you should say it, but you are also not\u200c doing what needs\u2064 to be done when you need to do it.\u200d You are turning a\u2063 blind \u200beye\u200b and allowing it to \u2063happen. But you are also not bringing \u200dinto the world what you could\u2063 bring into the world if you brought <i>everything<\/i> you could into\u200c the world. That lack on\u200b your part of\u200c bringing into the world what could\u200c be there if you would reveal your light is\u2064 cataclysmic,\u200d and\u2062 that is a painful realization. It goes along with being a \u2064locus of divine worth. I believe that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I \u200cbelieve that if you fail\u2064 to say what you know\u2064 to be true, you corrupt\u2064 the world. You corrupt <i>being<\/i>. If you lie, you corrupt <i>being<\/i>. Corrupted \u2062 <i>being<\/i> is hell, and if we all lie enough, then we have hell. Whether\u200d we all lie enough to bring about hell is actually dependent in much larger part\u2062 than you might desire\u2062 to admit. \u2063It is dependent on your choice. One of the reasons we [Tammy and I] love doing what we are doing is because we come to these events with thousands of people, \u200band everybody at the\u2063 event \u2063is trying to\u2062 aim up \u2014 and often doing so, especially in contrast with their previous efforts. That \u200cis unbelievably \u200bmotivating and wonderful to see, \u2064but also necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are very\u2064 powerful now, all of us, with our incredible technological gadgets, our\u2062 computational power, and\u2062 that is going to\u200c become way more; we are going to get way more powerful than that really fast so you\u2063 better get your act\u200c together because children cannot wield that kind\u2062 of power without all hell breaking loose. So I am very optimistic because things could be even better than what we could imagine. But if we want to, we could sure make them worse. So we all have to decide: Are we aiming up with all we have or are \u200dwe aiming down? I hope that whatever we are doing tonight\u200c is\u2063 a \u200dcontribution \u2064to \u2063the consensus that we should each do what we can in the confines of our own life in the unlimited \u2062expanse of \u2062the \u2062opportunity\u2064 of our own lives \u200dto aim up. \u200dIf we all do that \u200bcarefully enough, then up we will go. If we\u200d do \u200cnot, then we can have the alternative. \u2064So, on that happy note, we will say \u2062goodnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>To continue,\u2064 listen or watch more content with Dr. Jordan Peterson on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\">DailyWire+<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>About Dr. Jordan B. Peterson<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jordanbpeterson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u2064is a \u2064clinical \u200dpsychologist and professor emeritus at the \u2064University of Toronto. From 1993 \u200dto 1998 he served\u200c as assistant and then associate professor of psychology \u200bat Harvard. He\u2063 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-a-chicago-restaurant-closed-after-the-owner-killed-and-cooked-a-person\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Was A Chicago Restaurant Closed After The Owner Killed And Cooked A Person?\">international bestselling author<\/a> of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200clisten to<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  or<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\/jordan-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  watch<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  his popular lectures on DailyWire+.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How can access to\u2062 vast amounts of information and technological advancements contribute to eradicating absolute\u200b poverty and providing education for all?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ical advancements and access to vast amounts of information. This power brings with it the potential \u200dto create \u2063a future of abundance and prosperity like never before. We have the means \u200dto eradicate absolute poverty, provide education to all, and disseminate information at virtually no cost. \u2063The possibilities are immense.<\/p>\n<p>However, with great power\u2063 comes great responsibility. It is up\u200d to each \u2064individual to make\u2064 choices that lead us towards a better future. We have the power to bring down tyranny and \u2062make a positive impact on the world. The trajectory towards heaven or hell is dependent on our individual choices.<\/p>\n<p>We must recognize the ultimate worth\u2064 and sovereignty of each individual. With this recognition comes a\u200b commensurate responsibility to act in a way that aligns with our highest values. We cannot remain in deceit or turn a blind eye \u200bto tyranny. We must speak \u2062the truth and take action when it is necessary. By doing\u2063 so, \u200bwe contribute \u200cto the betterment of society.<\/p>\n<p>The responsibility\u200b lies in each of us to bring our light into the\u2063 world.\u200c If \u2062we fail to\u2062 do so, if we\u2064 do not bring everything we could\u200b into the world, we corrupt being itself. This corruption leads to a state of hell. It is our choices, our willingness to speak the truth and act in alignment with our values, that determine whether we manifest \u2064heaven or hell in our society.<\/p>\n<p>It is encouraging \u2062to see \u200dthousands of people at events like Dr. Peterson&#8217;s lecture series, all striving to aim higher and make positive changes in their \u2064lives. This collective effort is not only motivating\u2064 but also\u2063 necessary for creating a hopeful and prosperous future for all.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the future holds immense potential\u200d for \u200cboth hope and desperation. We have the means to eradicate poverty and create \u2062a world of abundance. However, it requires\u2063 each individual to take responsibility for their choices and actions, to speak the truth and strive towards their highest values. By\u2062 doing so, we can create a future \u2064that beckons with hope and fulfillment, while avoiding the pitfalls \u200dof despair and destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jordan Peterson, during his Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life tour, shares his mixed feelings on the future. 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